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This Week in Art 3.13-3.19: Theaster Gates Axes a Painting

Photo courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.

by Lindsey Davis

March 13, 2017

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Last week, Season 8 artist Theaster Gates took an ax to one of his paintings at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. The sliced black canvas is entitled Flat Bush, and explores the artist’s interest in laborers’ skills, like for example, swinging an ax. The piece is one of ten in a new solo exhibition entitled The Minor Arts, on view through September 4, 2017.

March 16-18, 8pm—Charles Atlas will be performing alongside fellow artists Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener in Tesseract, a dance/technology hybrid performance commissioned by the Walker Art Center. [Read an interview with the artist about the project in The Art Newspaper.]

On Thursday, March 16, the National Gallery in Prague opens Ai Weiwei’s Law of the Journey—the artist’s first exhibition in the Czech Republic. Featuring a 230-foot-long inflatable boat with 258 oversized refugee figures, the exhibition is described as the the artist’s “multi-layered, epic statement on the human condition,” and is on view through January 1, 2018. [Learn more on Artnet.]